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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787229103321

Titolo

The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-2004 : from imperial bastion to provincial oracle / / editors, Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, Barry Cahill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4426-5983-1

1-4426-5553-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (562 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, portraits

Collana

Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Disciplina

349.716

Soggetti

LAW / Courts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction / Girard, Philip / Phillips, Jim -- 2. Origins: The Courts of Westminster Hall in the Eighteenth Century / Hay, Douglas -- 3. Colonial and Imperial Contexts / Mancke, Elizabeth -- Part 2: Overviews -- 4. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Origins to Confederation / Cahill, Barry / Phillips, Jim -- 5. The Supreme Court of Nova Scotia: Confederation to the Twenty-First Century / Girard, Philip -- 6. A Collective Biography of the Supreme Court Judiciary of Nova Scotia, 1900-2000 / Brown, R. Blake / Jones, Susan S. -- 7. Halifax Homes of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Cuthbertson, Brian -- Part 3: Case Studies -- 8. Michaelmas Term 1754: The Supreme Court's First Session / Muir, James / Phillips, Jim -- 9. Women as Litigants before the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1754-1830 / Gwyn, Julian -- 10. Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 / Hibbitts, Bernard J. -- 11. Instrumentalism and the Law of Injuries in Nineteenth-Century Nova Scotia / Muir, James -- 12. Confederation, Adjudicative Culture, and the Law of the Constitution: The Late Nineteenth-Century Persistence of Local Autonomy in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Lahey, William -- 13. 'To Err Is Human, to Forgive Divine': The Labour Relations Board



and the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, 1947-1965 / Brown, R. Blake -- Appendix: The Records of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court / Phillips, Jim / Macleod, John -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this important new volume provides a comprehensive history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court. The thirteen essays include an account of the first meeting in 1754 of the court in Michaelmas Term, surveys of jurisprudence (the court's early federalism cases; its use of American law; attitudes to the administrative state), and chapters on the courts of Westminster Hall, on which the Supreme Court was modelled, and the various courthouses it has occupied. Anchoring the volume are two longer chapters, one on the pre-confederation period and one on the modern period.Editors Philip Girard, Jim Phillips, and Barry Cahill have put together the first complete history of any Canadian provincial superior court. All of the essays are original, and many offer new interpretations of familiar themes in Canadian legal history. They take the reader through the establishment of the one-judge court to the present day ? a unique contribution to our understanding of superior courts.